Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART: Woman with a Mantilla

Collection: 
ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
Preferred Title: 
Woman with a Mantilla
Image View: 
Overall view from the back showing the mantilla over the head
Creator: 
Pablo Picasso (Spanish ceramicist, 1881-1973)
Location: 
repository: Musée Picasso [Paris] (Paris, Île-de-France, France) MP3695
Location Note: 
From Africa to the Americas: Face-to-Face Picasso, Past and Present (2018 exhibition)
Date: 
1949 (creation)
Cultural Context: 
French
Style Period: 
Twentieth century
Work Type 1: 
ceramics (object genre)
Work Type 2: 
figurine
Classification: 
Sculpture and Installations
Material: 
white clay, painted with red and black slip
Technique: 
modeling (forming); painting and painting techniques; throwing (pottery technique)
Measurements: 
47 cm (height) x 12.5 cm (width) x 9.5 cm (depth)
Subjects: 
abstraction; human figure; Spanish costume
Description: 
Created in Vallauris, 1949. The figurine is partially wheel-thrown with white clay, then modeled and painted with red and black clay slip. (Source: Le Fur, Yves, ed.; Through the Eyes of Picasso: Face to Face with African and Oceanic Art, Paris: Editions Flammarion, 2017 (978-2-08-020319-9))
Collection: 
Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
Identifier: 
7A1-PICASSO-FAFFM-WM-A05
Rights: 
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.